China seeks food security, but at what cost?
China seeks food security, but at what cost?
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fixation on food security
caring more about feeding people than feeding profits makes you a monster to The Economist
it's not the feeding people that they're even mad about so much as the freedom of action that a country has when it doesn't rely on trade with other nations for essentials like food and energy
Leverage. It's all about leverage.
B-B-B-BUT muh COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE. This isn't PARETO EFFICIENT, and that's against the RULES. (Please ignore the inseparable intertwining of economic and political power and just play along like dupes)
Guevara has a bunch of speeches about this. IIRC, he differentiated between "political freedom", the power of a people to make their own decisions and act on them, and "economical freedom", the power of a people to decide over their production and trade. He argued that a revolution aims for the former; after that, the post-revolution state builds the latter.
damn that sounds really good. I'll have to go looking for those
This is the book, but it's in Portuguese. It's in chapter one: political sovereignty and economical independence